Every time I see copies of this movie are missing from the video store, I pity the poor soul who is forced to endure this painful excuse for a movie. I saw this film at a free theater preview, but we paid dearly for the painful hours of torture. Not only is this movie slow, boring, stupid, and a waste of time, as one theater goer stated loudly on the way out, "That is one weird a-- movie!" I've never read the book, and for fear that it is anything like the movie, I never will!! Everyone (who obviously didn't see the film) praised it and Oprah with promises of Academy awards - I cringed at the very thought. To the Academy's credit, they only allowed a nomination to this film for costume design, clearly a statement that No, they did not forget about Oprah or Beloved. So, consider this if you pause in the video and contemplate - how bad could it be...I will never be able to erase the image of a naked pregnant woman standing spread-eagle on a front porch screaming at a group of women (not to mention this person is supposed to be Oprah's dead baby back from the grave as a teenager who grunts and can't make a complete sentence but can convince a man to have sex with her while she drools). Someone save us, I think we've reached a new low in films!!
